Greg Jefferson: A bad sign for voter turnout

Parents, a few looking grumpy and haggard, rush to get their kids to William B. Travis Elementary School on time this morning. In a bad sign for voter turnout, several say balloting didn’t make their to-do list.

Moninique and Jonathon, who’d just dropped off their two kids at the near-downtown school, didn’t know it was Election Day until they heard it on the news.

That’s probably cringe-inducing for San Antonio ISD, which operates Travis Elementary and is one of five local school districts asking voters today to OK a tax rate of $1.17 per $100 of assessed property value to pay for daily operations.

It’s up to voters because the proposed rate is higher than $1.04, the maximum amount under a state property tax relief law passed last year.